Rethinking the history of American education
By: edited by William J. Reese and John L. Rury
Contributors: Reese, William J., 1951-; Rury, John L., 1951-
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780230600096
Subjects: Education -- United States -- History; Education -- United States -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: an evolving and expanding field of study / William J. Reese and John L. Rury; title: Literacy, common schools, and high schools in colonial and antebellum America / Gerald F. Moran and Maris A. Vinovskis; title: All educational politics is local: new perspectives on black schooling in the post-bellum South / Jacqueline Jones; title: "As is the teacher, so is the school": future directions in the historiography of African American teachers / Michael Fultz; title: American public schooling and European immigrants in the early twentieth century: a post-revisionist synthesis / Michael R. Olneck; title: The historiography of women's education in the United States / Margaret A. Nash; title: Children in American history / N. Ray Hiner; title: Sites, students, scholarship, and structures: the historiography of American higher education in the post-revisionist era / Christine A. Ogren; title: Curriculum history and its revisionist legacy / Barry M. Franklin; title: Bridging the gap between urban, suburban, and educational history / Jack Dougherty; title: The federal role in American education: a historiographical essay / Adam R. Nelson; title: Epilogue: new directions in the history of education / William J. Reese and John L. Rury